IMPRESSIVE. It happened to me several times. Assuming that something is ok and looking for the failure EVERYWHERE else. And right when you think "it can't be that piece" you suddenly realise it is indeed that piece who's causing you so many problems. I really felt this video. Keep up the good work! ❤️
The short was probably from the first bridge you made, 7:57 a big tail is hanging out next to the track or it shorted on the connector pins when you soldered it on top.
He has good soldering skills, but the approach he is taking is not perfect. The short was caused by himself and the repair was too time-consuming. You do only need to recover the data, you don‘t need to solder a proper port to it.
Very impressive, great knowledge and experience to determine that the socket was the actuall problem, many wouldn't have figured that out and given up blaming the I.C, BRAVO!
I thought no video would come today because every time the notification of the video used to come at 12:00 pm noon , but when Indian time came at 12:00 am tonight, I was very happy and I watched the whole video and liked it. Thank you
i absolutely love this mans video. i appreciate that it represents real world scenario. assuming the socket is compatible with the board is a natural thing to do however leaving in the video footage of this faulty assumption is NOT normal. in doing so he has given an amateur like me a sense of strength and confidence in my work. i am certainly going to watch more of this teachers content. thank you for your knowledge and straightforward instruction.
pin 4's jumper point which is D+ was right under pin 5 which was ground . so actually when you solder the jack onto it, the solder actually creeps under the pin 4 and 5 and makes a bridge under it which your microscope couldn't see. please check my referrence at 21:38 . I have been doing micro soldering since 2004 and these kind of issues happen when you solder onto jumpers.
One of your jumpers contacted a pin on the connector. It was the wire soldered to D+. When you soldered the connector on, it made contact with ground via the connector pin (I think pin 6).
Could be wrong but looked like a missing component on USB leg side on the right...maybe... Please keep up the great work. I'm learning so much from you. Thank you!
Very good lessons learned here! Thank you for sharing your experiences. If only TH-cam had been around when I was younger. I could have saved myself a lot of time by watching Alex. :)
I think when you placed the usb connector jumpers underneath get shorted although connector should be fine. You should add solder mask and cured it first. My thought.!
This video was a fine show. I am pleased to learn how flash drives work. I switched from digital video discs (DVDs) to a 3.0 flash drive. So far, I have encountered a storage problem with my data.
That tip about resting the side of your hand on your bench to stop it from shaking while you do precision work is the exact same lesson I teach new tech's when I train them. :)
I think to myself, "why oh why can't these connections be standardized"? My personal favorite is the "center post Neg" power port. Great vids Alax, I'm learning a lot. Thank you
Cool work. I never saw any USB sockets with a different pinout than this board used. Do you think it is possible the rework wire was shorting against the case of the connector?
Hear you. Although (time & energy willing) I would want to take a closer look at that suspect connector. Unless it's common knowledge that such cross wiring exists in some spec? Should be easy to spot the cockup (UK saying, honest!). Thoughts? Cheers SoCalif🇺🇸
I strayed on to your site by accident Alex,.... now I can't stop watching...lol It has HIGHS... It has LOWS....It has DRAMA...It has PHILOSOPHY....It has HUMOUR.... It has EDUCATION....It has REAL-WORLD INSIGHTS....It has SKILL...It has ARTISTRY.... but you could have left out the bit about your wife changing nappies... I was eating my dinner... lol
I would suggest for this type of repair you have a USB breakout cable and breadboard. You can just solder wires to the headers and connect them to a breadboard which as a USB header on. You can keep reusing this. After all you never gonna hand the flash drive back and say sure just keep using it. It always as case of grab the files and the client can buy a new flash drive to copy them on to.
At 13:56 you can see that the transistor component that there is a Solder blob shorting the component closest to the big yellow capacitor. After he removed the usb connector the short was gone and so was the solder blob.
Nice video...love those long videos and repair on stuff like a thumbdrive. That was really tricky, but we all learned something about this. I never knew that there are usb sockets with different pin-outs. Thought they have all the same pinouts like usb3.0 = usb3.0...but now, we all learned something. Perfect video. 👍👌 I have an idea for your video on soldertips, maybe you could explain why your tips always look so clean. Is it cause you are using a copper-wire- leaner? Do you leave a small spot of solder on the tip when you turn off the station?
maybe the socket is one that's supposed be mounted on the underside of the board so it has a mirrored pinout and it would be correct if viewed from the bottom? would have loved to see a quick comparison with the meter in diode mode. and yes, leave your tip covered with solder when turning off/letting it cool down to prevent oxidisation (tip not being shiny anymore).
The trick to not puking when smelling that is to simply not breathe from the nose the entire time, well before you ever get near the vicinity of it. Even though it may take a while of getting over the urge to smell it for a split-second "just to smell how stinky it is". Eventually you come to realize it really IS always going to be stinky - then you stop attempting to find out just how much each time. =) *Source: I have a dog that's trained to go in the walk-in shower, and do it every day I'm not able to walk her. 👍
Watched your video again, and i think the terminal legs of the new usb are too long far back touching other circuit underneath the usb making the short..
Hi! Just a heads up. When searching for your website on Google, underneath the "SHOP" link, there's a spelling mistake. You put "Lowes" instead of "Lowest". Great video!
I was having a walk in backyard while u were cutting wires and I literally stopped when u going to cut wires, nice blade it is BUT not a happy ending thumbs up anyways 👍
Nice video,Can you make tutorial videos series for example a series on how you can recover Data from all types of device like pc , mac , android and iphone.
You are amazing and explaining each step. Pls we want to see the multimeter value during testing electronic devices, just want to know how it is short and what's their value shown on multimeter. Thank you
I really struggle tinning thin wires in situ, I use flux and plenty of it but I have great difficulty getting the solder to leave the iron. You can buy little practice SMD boards for about £3, you can even get LEDs to light up.
Im new to soldering and really loving micro electronics. My understanding was that you never add solder direct to the iron tip like you do but heat the part and add the solder to that? Amazing videos and you gained a subscriber! Thanks for the videos! Merry Christmas
If you’re using flux core solder only. You should do what you mentioned. But I’d you apply flux separately there is some lateral to add solder to the iron and apply it. Watch some micro solder videos you can apply solder to the iron and just drag it across all pins. With enough flux it works fine
Very good job with a lot of patience and knowledge. But the other one who was already trying to solder also thought that he ruined the chip. This is what soldering looks like at first glance.😨😨😨😨
I enjoy watching your videos, I'm learning myself and I'm actually doing a laptop A/C jack replacement today. My question is, what are the chances that some components were damaged under that much heat on the flash drive? I guess what I'm really asking is how much heat can these tiny electronics take in general before they die?
most components will have a section on max soldering conditions in their datasheet that will tell you what they're guaranteed to withstand by the manufacturer. I don't know if they're just covering their asses (probably?) and their components can i.e. take the heat for 5 times as long in 99% of the time though, no experience with that.
Another question, is that Flux greasy ? It looks as it is based on petrolatum, (Vaseline). I have problems finding that tipe of Flux here in Venezuela so I am doing mine using alcohol and rosin, it works very nicely but it's not the consistency of the one you are using so I am thinking in trying mixing rosin, alcohol and petrolatum to get the consistancy I am looking for.
NOW i want that blade!!!! :p nice work esplaining and sharing knowledge. are you working throught the camera and screen ? that dont cause some delay? i'm looking for a good microscope stereo w/camera because they say work through camera only ,cause delay and more dificult to work. do you confirm? About the short... normally i just wire the 4 wires from a standart usb cable (from an old mouse or printer cable,cutted) and solder there just for recover data. maybe you short any pad with this wires longer than the tracks itself.... to small thing to know ..
Is there steps to take to test a a usb stick board with a multimeter if it doesn’t get recognized by the PC? My Linux system doesn’t even see it being plugged in. I took the case off and saw a tiny led on the end of the stick that lights up when it gets plugged in so that circuit works. Would love to use this stick as a learning piece to see if I can repair the stick. It’s my brothers and he has photos on it that he wants. It’s an old stick. I don’t see any bad solder joints or pads. No burnt marks on any of the tiny surface mounted resistors or caps.
If the USB3 connector came off, you can just boot it as a USB2 drive with four wires onto the PCB (power and the USB 2 data pair), no need to clean/reconnect the superspeed lines or put the connector back on.
Hello...good work sir.Yes data recovery may tricky to recover.I ever restore thumb drive brand kingston 8GB and not able recover data cause by memory itself damage...most common fault is memory.except changed memory ic module and reprogram it and thumb drive can use like new one.
thank you so much for this video... I have some fun for watched that and I like make staff like this all time ...sometimes I work many hours in that ...again thank you so much...this is first time for me watching you 😄🤗🤗
IMPRESSIVE. It happened to me several times. Assuming that something is ok and looking for the failure EVERYWHERE else. And right when you think "it can't be that piece" you suddenly realise it is indeed that piece who's causing you so many problems.
I really felt this video. Keep up the good work! ❤️
One of the best straight-up teachers of electronics I have seen yet .....thank you👍 and I have watched thousands of tutorial videos on electronics
The short was probably from the first bridge you made, 7:57 a big tail is hanging out next to the track or it shorted on the connector pins when you soldered it on top.
Exactly and it was painfully obvious when he was preparing jumper wires
12:00 It's not.
look at 10:15
Dude .. you are transfering all your secrete skill knowledge to everybody , you're so generous ...
That's how we progress as a society. :)
He has good soldering skills, but the approach he is taking is not perfect. The short was caused by himself and the repair was too time-consuming. You do only need to recover the data, you don‘t need to solder a proper port to it.
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Very impressive, great knowledge and experience to determine that the socket was the actuall problem, many wouldn't have figured that out and given up blaming the I.C, BRAVO!
I thought no video would come today because every time the notification of the video used to come at 12:00 pm noon , but when Indian time came at 12:00 am tonight, I was very happy and I watched the whole video and liked it. Thank you
i absolutely love this mans video. i appreciate that it represents real world scenario. assuming the socket is compatible with the board is a natural thing to do however leaving in the video footage of this faulty assumption is NOT normal. in doing so he has given an amateur like me a sense of strength and confidence in my work. i am certainly going to watch more of this teachers content. thank you for your knowledge and straightforward instruction.
Socket? Maybe short circ. on pins with New cables-pads. Look 11:46 and later
what do you mean?
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ohh the wire was shorting there with another pin
Yeah wire short with other pins
Great, u see it well. Yess there is a short on pins with new cables.
pin 4's jumper point which is D+ was right under pin 5 which was ground . so actually when you solder the jack onto it, the solder actually creeps under the pin 4 and 5 and makes a bridge under it which your microscope couldn't see. please check my referrence at 21:38 . I have been doing micro soldering since 2004 and these kind of issues happen when you solder onto jumpers.
One of your jumpers contacted a pin on the connector. It was the wire soldered to D+. When you soldered the connector on, it made contact with ground via the connector pin (I think pin 6).
Could be wrong but looked like a missing component on USB leg side on the right...maybe...
Please keep up the great work. I'm learning so much from you. Thank you!
Very good lessons learned here! Thank you for sharing your experiences. If only TH-cam had been around when I was younger. I could have saved myself a lot of time by watching Alex. :)
Saw the leg crossing over a very fine fresh layer of solder mask left thinking if this doesn't short it would be miracle.
You really know your stuff. I love your videos. I just want to say it's refreshing to watch a video with someone not so negative! U ROCK!!
You’re awesome. You’ve inspired me to start my own business, so I thank you for the advice, excitement, and drive.
I think when you placed the usb connector jumpers underneath get shorted although connector should be fine. You should add solder mask and cured it first. My thought.!
I can not reccomend low melt solder enough that stuff is awesome I can't work without it now
100% agree
This video was a fine show. I am pleased to learn how flash drives work. I switched from digital video discs (DVDs) to a 3.0 flash drive. So far, I have encountered a storage problem with my data.
This men is a top graded electronic surgeon
You are the best. I thought the NY Apple guy was good, but I learn so much more from you because you teach, where the other guy shows off.
Aye! I love that feeling. At 20:50
"There's hope!"/ "Got you!!"
It's the best
That tip about resting the side of your hand on your bench to stop it from shaking while you do precision work is the exact same lesson I teach new tech's when I train them. :)
Nothing wrong with the USB connector, he just shorted the data line to ground with his jumpier wire 🤦♂️
I also think he should cover the lines
12:53 but where.....?
This knowledge you cannot bey but with people like you we can learn techniques that help us all be better at doing what we do 🙏
I think to myself, "why oh why can't these connections be standardized"? My personal favorite is the "center post Neg" power port. Great vids Alax, I'm learning a lot. Thank you
You’re not just a good tech but a good salesman. You just sold me on the blade kit I will probably get one next time I order more flux.
As someone who use to work in a repair shop, seeing you solder is like ASMR for my eyes lol
For real man
I think you forgot to cure the UV solder mask.
Sir, I have seen your all videos and I like the way u works projects. Lots of love from india.
Just wow ❤️❤️🔥🔥
The only one who shows all the secrets
Thank you brother 😊
Cool work. I never saw any USB sockets with a different pinout than this board used. Do you think it is possible the rework wire was shorting against the case of the connector?
Super power is myth but ur super knowledge n experience is real. Thx for all the knowledge n experience shared
It's amazing and hypnotic. It's the first time I saw your videos, of course now I'm subscribed for more. Thanks for making it as satisfying training.
Thumbs up before I watch, just because I can 😁 keep the good content coming 👌
i'm with you on that "wow it was the connector that the costumer sent to me" wow
Hear you. Although (time & energy willing) I would want to take a closer look at that suspect connector. Unless it's common knowledge that such cross wiring exists in some spec? Should be easy to spot the cockup (UK saying, honest!). Thoughts?
Cheers
SoCalif🇺🇸
The excitement 😄 for the blade, cool 😁👍
I strayed on to your site by accident Alex,.... now I can't stop watching...lol It has HIGHS... It has LOWS....It has DRAMA...It has PHILOSOPHY....It has HUMOUR.... It has EDUCATION....It has REAL-WORLD INSIGHTS....It has SKILL...It has ARTISTRY.... but you could have left out the bit about your wife changing nappies... I was eating my dinner... lol
Where's Part II?
Lots of love from Nepal!
Very good job 👏 we are waiting for part 2 🤓😊
Sir I love Hard Working People like you, Keep it Up,
Lots of Respect From Pakistan.
My brother ur hardworking (masha-allah)❤️love from india
That's amazing 😍 video. I gathered lot of knowledge from this video. Thanks for sharing your valuable knowledge with us.
Thanks brother
I would suggest for this type of repair you have a USB breakout cable and breadboard. You can just solder wires to the headers and connect them to a breadboard which as a USB header on. You can keep reusing this. After all you never gonna hand the flash drive back and say sure just keep using it. It always as case of grab the files and the client can buy a new flash drive to copy them on to.
Impressive video. Plot twists and ending with a cliffhanger. Can’t ask for better entertainment
At 13:56 you can see that the transistor component that there is a Solder blob shorting the component closest to the big yellow capacitor. After he removed the usb connector the short was gone and so was the solder blob.
Nice video...love those long videos and repair on stuff like a thumbdrive. That was really tricky, but we all learned something about this. I never knew that there are usb sockets with different pin-outs. Thought they have all the same pinouts like usb3.0 = usb3.0...but now, we all learned something. Perfect video.
👍👌
I have an idea for your video on soldertips, maybe you could explain why your tips always look so clean. Is it cause you are using a copper-wire- leaner? Do you leave a small spot of solder on the tip when you turn off the station?
maybe the socket is one that's supposed be mounted on the underside of the board so it has a mirrored pinout and it would be correct if viewed from the bottom?
would have loved to see a quick comparison with the meter in diode mode.
and yes, leave your tip covered with solder when turning off/letting it cool down to prevent oxidisation (tip not being shiny anymore).
Whoever sent that in definitely attempted to repair it.. js
thank you so much...respect and thumbs up from Sri Lanka. far away from your country sir...this is very useful channel
Persistance pays. So many people would have given up and and said the controller was the issue and issued a no fix.
Hi... based on this experience, what would you do first to not make this a waste of your time.. maybe check for shorts first before soldering?
The trick to not puking when smelling that is to simply not breathe from the nose the entire time, well before you ever get near the vicinity of it. Even though it may take a while of getting over the urge to smell it for a split-second "just to smell how stinky it is". Eventually you come to realize it really IS always going to be stinky - then you stop attempting to find out just how much each time. =)
*Source: I have a dog that's trained to go in the walk-in shower, and do it every day I'm not able to walk her. 👍
Watched your video again, and i think the terminal legs of the new usb are too long far back touching other circuit underneath the usb making the short..
Hi! Just a heads up. When searching for your website on Google, underneath the "SHOP" link, there's a spelling mistake. You put "Lowes" instead of "Lowest".
Great video!
The true surgeon of the electronics world.
Professional i respect your job.. thank you
The "Silicon Whisper"... 👍😎
P.S. Now my GF likes "your NEW tool" instead of my "OLD tool". Not happy @all
Cheers from
SoCalif🇺🇸
you make it look so easy! NOTHING better than experience!
Salaam ! you are so good at what you do ,you make every thing look so simple
just love it ,It would really be nice if you consider TV repair
Awesome ✌️✌️✌️
Excellent knowledge of electronics...
Keep it up 👍👍👍
Hmmm, do ya reckon he likes that knife and blade??? 😂🤣😆
I was having a walk in backyard while u were cutting wires and I literally stopped when u going to cut wires, nice blade it is BUT not a happy ending thumbs up anyways 👍
I think the short was coming from jumper wire number 4 that touching pin number 5 of usb port.
My hands shake like Marty McFly and he's stable as a boulder
maybe the port have problem. i think the jumper wire have contact with port shield (ground) i use very thin magnetic wire just to avoid contact
Nice video,Can you make tutorial videos series for example a series on how you can recover Data from all types of device like pc , mac , android and iphone.
Got very usefull tip regarding shake .thanks brother we learn a lot watching your videos
Why do some traces have squiggles and fancy loops? Wouldn't it be more efficient to have a direct path from A to B?
You are amazing and explaining each step. Pls we want to see the multimeter value during testing electronic devices, just want to know how it is short and what's their value shown on multimeter.
Thank you
Excellent advise, Excellent video.
I really struggle tinning thin wires in situ, I use flux and plenty of it but I have great difficulty getting the solder to leave the iron.
You can buy little practice SMD boards for about £3, you can even get LEDs to light up.
4:15 missing component on the right side ?
Possible.
I think you are correct. You have good eyes
Could be but they also look like test pads possibly
good catch. yes, it looks like there was a component on it before.
I think that blade is a concave 5192 and it's my favourite blade.
Im new to soldering and really loving micro electronics. My understanding was that you never add solder direct to the iron tip like you do but heat the part and add the solder to that? Amazing videos and you gained a subscriber! Thanks for the videos! Merry Christmas
If you’re using flux core solder only. You should do what you mentioned. But I’d you apply flux separately there is some lateral to add solder to the iron and apply it. Watch some micro solder videos you can apply solder to the iron and just drag it across all pins. With enough flux it works fine
It looks your D+jumper wire shorts to GND on the 5th pad, when the connector is soldered on. The connector on sheets them. 🤔
Best of luck I hope you fix it!
It is so satisfying to watch your work...
Second pad wire should have been pointing opposite direction then soldered...
Thanks for sharing your knowledge , BTW how many years you have been working in repairing?
Most satisfying channel of TH-cam
Very good job with a lot of patience and knowledge. But the other one who was already trying to solder also thought that he ruined the chip. This is what soldering looks like at first glance.😨😨😨😨
Nice work. I hope one day to be able to solder like you.
Your works are simply AWESOME
I enjoy watching your videos, I'm learning myself and I'm actually doing a laptop A/C jack replacement today. My question is, what are the chances that some components were damaged under that much heat on the flash drive? I guess what I'm really asking is how much heat can these tiny electronics take in general before they die?
most components will have a section on max soldering conditions in their datasheet that will tell you what they're guaranteed to withstand by the manufacturer.
I don't know if they're just covering their asses (probably?) and their components can i.e. take the heat for 5 times as long in 99% of the time though, no experience with that.
I love my scalpel set also, so much utility.
Another question, is that Flux greasy ? It looks as it is based on petrolatum, (Vaseline). I have problems finding that tipe of Flux here in Venezuela so I am doing mine using alcohol and rosin, it works very nicely but it's not the consistency of the one you are using so I am thinking in trying mixing rosin, alcohol and petrolatum to get the consistancy I am looking for.
NOW i want that blade!!!! :p nice work esplaining and sharing knowledge. are you working throught the camera and screen ? that dont cause some delay? i'm looking for a good microscope stereo w/camera because they say work through camera only ,cause delay and more dificult to work. do you confirm?
About the short... normally i just wire the 4 wires from a standart usb cable (from an old mouse or printer cable,cutted) and solder there just for recover data. maybe you short any pad with this wires longer than the tracks itself.... to small thing to know ..
Thank You So Much for sharing your knowledge with us.
Thank you brother. Your hard work is a great teacher for me and many others
Good job , we learn a lot of things from u sir
And yes finally i found good TH-camr👍👍👍
Awesome work!! Straight up genius.
Is there steps to take to test a a usb stick board with a multimeter if it doesn’t get recognized by the PC? My Linux system doesn’t even see it being plugged in. I took the case off and saw a tiny led on the end of the stick that lights up when it gets plugged in so that circuit works. Would love to use this stick as a learning piece to see if I can repair the stick. It’s my brothers and he has photos on it that he wants. It’s an old stick. I don’t see any bad solder joints or pads. No burnt marks on any of the tiny surface mounted resistors or caps.
This guy is a master ,love watching him fixing devices great work what's the brand of the tools WILL be Waiting for reply have a good day
Videos or top level. But multiple ads.
Bro your work very nice,I like your work,I am working industrial electronics ,
If the USB3 connector came off, you can just boot it as a USB2 drive with four wires onto the PCB (power and the USB 2 data pair), no need to clean/reconnect the superspeed lines or put the connector back on.
Use a sawing motion when cutting off small pieces it helps a lot
Hello...good work sir.Yes data recovery may tricky to recover.I ever restore thumb drive brand kingston 8GB and not able recover data cause by memory itself damage...most common fault is memory.except changed memory ic module and reprogram it and thumb drive can use like new one.
In my opinion it's not a tricky one in data recovering. It's not even a data recovering
However, i like it
thank you so much for this video... I have some fun for watched that and I like make staff like this all time ...sometimes I work many hours in that ...again thank you so much...this is first time for me watching you 😄🤗🤗
@14:05 you can see the chip is cracked, adios data!
New to your channel as a subscriber...still dabble in electronic repairs. Do you have the make/model of the scapel/knife you are using in the video.